Primary Understanding

Education in Early Childhood

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Education & Teaching, Parent Participation, Elementary
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Author: Kieran Egan ISBN: 9781136701054
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: April 27, 2012
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Kieran Egan
ISBN: 9781136701054
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: April 27, 2012
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

Beginning with descriptions of the ways in which children make sense of their experience and the world, such as fantasy, stories and games, Egan constructs his argument that constituting this foundational layer are sets of cultural sense-making capacities, reflected in oral cultures throughout the world. Egan sees education as the acquisition of these sets of sense-making capacities, available in our culture, and his goal is to conceptualize primary education in a way that over comes the dichotomy between progressivisim and traditionalism, attending both the needs of the individual child and the accumulation of knowledge.

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Beginning with descriptions of the ways in which children make sense of their experience and the world, such as fantasy, stories and games, Egan constructs his argument that constituting this foundational layer are sets of cultural sense-making capacities, reflected in oral cultures throughout the world. Egan sees education as the acquisition of these sets of sense-making capacities, available in our culture, and his goal is to conceptualize primary education in a way that over comes the dichotomy between progressivisim and traditionalism, attending both the needs of the individual child and the accumulation of knowledge.

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